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[THUNDER RUMBLING]
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[RAINDROPS PATTERING]
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[LILY] I have heard myself say
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that a house with a death in it
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can never again be bought
or sold by the living.
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It can only be borrowed from the ghosts
that have stayed behind.
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To go back and forth,
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letting out and gathering back in again.
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Worrying over the floors
in confused circles.
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Tending to their deaths
like patchy, withered gardens.
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They have stayed
to look back for a glimpse
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of the very last moments of their lives.
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But the memories of their own deaths
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are faces on the wrong side
of wet windows,
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smeared by rain.
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Impossible to properly see.
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There is nothing
that chains them to the places
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where their bodies have fallen.
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They are free to go,
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but still they confine themselves,
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held in place by their looking.
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For those who have stayed,
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their prison is their never seeing.
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And left all alone,
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this is how they rot.
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[WOMAN] I did not know it at the time,
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but the house that stands
at the end of Teacup Road
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in the town of Braintree, Massachusetts,
was such a house.
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[FAINT THUNDER RUMBLING]
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[RAINDROPS PATTERING]
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A house that holds a seat
for the memory of a death.
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The staying place of a rotted ghost.
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[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
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At the time of my arrival
in the first part of August,
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the house was occupied by Iris Blum,
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the author of 13 novels.
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The kinds of thick and frightening books
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that people buy at airports
and supermarkets.
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Of her books, I have read fewer
than nine pages of only a single one...
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and all the while
suppressing a very bad taste.
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I am not even sure of the title.
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From where I am now,
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I can be sure of only a very few things.
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The pretty thing you are looking at is me.
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Of this I am sure.
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My name is Lily Saylor.
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I am a hospice nurse.
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Three days ago, I turned 28 years old.
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I will never be 29 years old.
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[MAN] It's, uh... [SNIFFLES]
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She's just above,
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uh, the bedroom on the right
in the front of the house.
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-Oh.
-[SNIFFLES]
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[STAIRS CREAKING]
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[SIGHS]
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Hello, Ms. Blum.
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My name is Lily.
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I'm going to be staying with you
from now on. I hope that's all right.
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[GASPS]
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[SIGHS]
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["YOU KEEP COMING BACK
LIKE A SONG" PLAYING]
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♪ You keep coming back... ♪
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♪ A song that keeps saying ♪
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♪ "Remember" ♪
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♪ The sweet used-to-be... ♪
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[SOFTLY] No snooping, you.
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[DRAWER CLOSES]
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[CHUCKLES]
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[SIGHS]
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♪ Keeps coming back ♪
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♪ Like an old melody... ♪
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[IRIS] Polly!
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♪ ...of roses in May... ♪
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[FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRWAY]
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♪ Returns to my room ♪
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♪ In December ♪
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♪ From out of the past ♪
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♪ Where forgotten things belong ♪
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♪ You keep coming back ♪
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♪ Like a song ♪
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[MUSIC CONTINUES]
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-[CLICKS]
-[MUSIC STOPS]
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[VOICES WHISPERING]
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[SNUFFLES]
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[LILY] I am very seldom required
to wear white by my employers.
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But, anyway, I always do.
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It has always been that wearing white
reassures the sick
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that I can never be touched.
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Even as darkness folds in on them
from every side...
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closing like a claw.
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[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
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[TOILETRIES TAPPING]
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[SIGHS]
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[FAINT THUMPING]
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[THUMPING CONTINUES]
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[THUMPING GROWS LOUDER]
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[SIGHS]
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[LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS]
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[SIGHS]
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Wake up, spaz.
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[SIGHS] Then go to sleep.
I don't know what.
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Is Bart in there with you?
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You slut.
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Is he awake?
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Tell him hi.
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No, no, no!
Don't tell him who it is, just--
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Uh, what are you guys doing?
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[CLICKS TONGUE] Oh, you guys are lame.
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Nothing.
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Couldn't sleep.
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The first night in a place
always weirds me out, you know.
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Kitchen. [SIGHS]
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The phone is in the kitchen.
What do you want?
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[LAUGHS]
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It's got one of those
ridiculously long cords
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that your mom used to have.
[LAUGHS] Remember that?
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[SIGHS]
Oh, well, it's a real old house, so...
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I don't know.
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They're thicker?
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Oh, the walls are thicker. [LAUGHS]
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"Creepy"?
Why would you say that to me right now,
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in the middle of the night
when I'm here all alone?
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[SIGHS] I'm okay.
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No, he hasn't called.
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[SIGHS] And he doesn't have this number.
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I can't imagine what I'd say if he did.
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I mean, what does a person say?
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"Oh. Remember that time we almost
but then didn't get married?
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'Cause I do."
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No, I don't think he will, either.
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Can we not talk
about Scott right now, please?
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Yeah. It'll be good to be here.
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Good to be away.
Just good to kinda put myself away for...
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[FAINT THUMPING]
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[PANTING]
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[THUMPING CONTINUES]
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[LILY] What are you guys doing?
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Oh?
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Well, that sounds pretty yummy
right about now.
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Yeah. I know.
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I'm sure I'll end up
cooking a bunch for Ms. Blum.
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No. It's Blum, stupid. Not Ms. Plum.
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This isn't Clue. [LAUGHS]
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Well, maybe I'll bake a pie.
I think I saw some blackberry--
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[GASPS]
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Jesus!
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[SHUDDERS]
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[PANTING]
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Oh, the phone just flew out of my hand.
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The cord not as long as it seems, huh?
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Or I dropped it, like a stupid idiot.
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I'm gonna give myself a heart attack.
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Anyhoo...
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what's new with you?
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[LILY] There.
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It was just there,
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even then.
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On my very first night in the house.
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A death.
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But I cannot see it.
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Not yet.
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But I can feel it shifting its weight
from bare foot to bare foot.
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Stepping around softly
behind a curtain of dark.
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Pacing back and forth
in the cage of my chest.
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[SIGHS]
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"Dark Moon Flower."
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"Underwater Housewife."
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So that's where you're hiding.
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[SIGHS]
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They told me there wasn't one of you,
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and I don't mind telling you,
I was a little worried.
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[SIGHS]
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Come on.
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-[LAUGHTER ON TV]
-Oh.
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[TV AUDIO SPUTTERING]
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[LAUGHTER STOPS]
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Well, no need to be rude.
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[LILY GASPS]
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[PANTS]
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Oh, Ms. Blum.
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You scared me. [SIGHS]
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Well, let's get you back.
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[SIGHS]
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Now, I'm thinking
it's not the best idea for you
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to be getting up without me from now on.
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Can we agree to that?
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Polly?
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Oh, um...
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No, uh... [LAUGHS]
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My name is Lily, Ms. Blum.
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We met a few hours ago.
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I'm going to be staying here with you
from now on.
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My Polly, tell me you missed me
just a little bit too.
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You'll give me as much as that, won't you?
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[SIGHS]
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[LILY] It can't be too much longer now.
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Because time spent in a house
with a death in it
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passes more quickly, you know.
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Eleven months.
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Passing like the night.
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[CICADAS CHIRPING]
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[SNIFFS]
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Susie.
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Sally.
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Candice and Jane.
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[LAUGHS]
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[SNIFFS]
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[CAR BRAKES SQUEAK]
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[CAR DOOR CREAKS]
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[CAR DOOR SLAMS]
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Scary.
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[LAUGHS]
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[FAINT VOICE WHISPERS]
This is how you rot.
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[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
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[KNOCKING]
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[SIGHS]
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[SOFTLY] France.
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[SIGHS]
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Uh, was the drive all right?
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Uh, yes. The summer season finally done
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and everyone going the other way
over bridges.
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[SMACKS LIPS]
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-And how is the lady of the house today?
-[LILY] Oh, she's comfortable.
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Taking a nap,
as she usually does at this time.
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And the wall, you say?
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[LILY SIGHS] Yes.
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It was fine when I first moved in,
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but now I think it's gotten much worse
in the past few weeks.
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Ah.
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Hmm.
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Possibly a mold of some kind.
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Likely there is some plumbing
behind the wall,
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-a pipe that runs up to the bathroom.
-Oh, the laundry room is just above, I--
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I sometimes hear the water going up
and a kind of knocking sound.
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You say you haven't seen it anywhere else?
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No. Only right here.
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Well... As to whether or not
the estate will approve the cost
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for cosmetic repairs,
that is another thing altogether.
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Oh, I'm not sure I'd agree it's cosmetic.
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Well, cosmetic as opposed to structural.
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The flesh and not the bones.
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Well, I just thought
that for Ms. Blum's respiratory--
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[SIGHS] For my respiratory to be...
breathing mold.
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Mm-hm.
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Well, as you know,
it is Ms. Blum's stated desire
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to remain in this house
until the occasion of her death
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and that all medical care be provided
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here on the premises regardless
of financial burden to the estate.
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And you've been here
nearly a year already.
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Oh...
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Well, given her advanced age
and present condition,
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it seems fair to assume
that your arrangement
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would not extend beyond
another year or two at maximum,
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wouldn't you say?
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Overall, I'd say her physical health
is rather good.
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Um, so, I'm sure I couldn't say.
[CHUCKLES]
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No, no. Of course. Of course.
That's... good.
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Uh, but, um...
Isn't she all there is to the estate?
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[CHUCKLES] She doesn't have any children,
no family.
262
00:29:25,939 --> 00:29:28,650
[SIGHS] Not a single visitor
in all the time I've been here.
263
00:29:29,402 --> 00:29:32,197
True, but Ms. Blum
has designated the property
264
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,698
as the centerpiece for a grant foundation
265
00:29:34,782 --> 00:29:39,204
to be awarded after her death
to a worthy woman author
266
00:29:39,286 --> 00:29:43,165
as a home and work space at no cost.
267
00:29:44,166 --> 00:29:47,169
"House of Stories," she calls it.
268
00:29:48,629 --> 00:29:51,632
Well, it'll have to be fixed up then,
for whoever. [LAUGHS]
269
00:29:51,715 --> 00:29:54,885
Well, it will be, when the time comes.
270
00:29:55,552 --> 00:29:59,348
But the estate can't pay for everything.
271
00:29:59,431 --> 00:30:01,016
Oh, here we are.
272
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,686
They've been out in the past
and will give us a better idea.
273
00:30:07,606 --> 00:30:09,817
-Was there anything else?
-No.
274
00:30:10,818 --> 00:30:11,693
Oh...
275
00:30:12,362 --> 00:30:13,321
yes.
276
00:30:13,862 --> 00:30:15,614
Hmm... [SIGHS]
277
00:30:15,697 --> 00:30:18,409
Uh, do you know anything
about anyone named Polly?
278
00:30:19,326 --> 00:30:20,994
Polly? Polly who?
279
00:30:22,455 --> 00:30:23,914
[SIGHS]
280
00:30:23,997 --> 00:30:26,917
Ms. Blum insists on calling me Polly.
281
00:30:27,418 --> 00:30:29,086
She never calls me anything else.
282
00:30:29,169 --> 00:30:30,295
[LAUGHS]
283
00:30:30,879 --> 00:30:34,007
Uh, of course, it's a natural thing
for someone with her condition.
284
00:30:34,091 --> 00:30:36,927
It's just that a confusion like that
285
00:30:37,010 --> 00:30:39,847
is usually with the memory
of someone significant.
286
00:30:40,848 --> 00:30:42,308
Not just a no one.
287
00:30:43,725 --> 00:30:46,645
Well, there is Polly
from Ms. Blum's novel,
288
00:30:46,728 --> 00:30:48,272
The Lady in the Walls.
289
00:30:49,231 --> 00:30:50,190
Oh.
290
00:30:50,691 --> 00:30:53,360
Easily her best known.
You haven't read it.
291
00:30:53,443 --> 00:30:55,654
Oh, heavens to Betsy, no, I haven't.
292
00:30:55,737 --> 00:30:56,905
[LAUGHS]
293
00:30:56,989 --> 00:30:59,825
No, um, I scare too easily. I...
294
00:31:00,409 --> 00:31:01,743
Oh, yes, that's right.
295
00:31:02,287 --> 00:31:04,997
Well, there is a not-very-good movie,
if you prefer.
296
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,917
No. Uh, no.
That would be much, much worse.
297
00:31:09,001 --> 00:31:10,043
[LAUGHS]
298
00:31:10,127 --> 00:31:12,754
I'd likely run down to the road screaming.
299
00:31:12,838 --> 00:31:14,631
And who'd look after Miss Blum? [LAUGHS]
300
00:31:17,384 --> 00:31:22,848
That particular novel was most notable
for Ms. Blum's deliberate choice...
301
00:31:23,765 --> 00:31:26,643
to leave off
the presumably horrific ending.
302
00:31:26,727 --> 00:31:30,022
Though she always insisted
it wasn't a choice at all,
303
00:31:30,105 --> 00:31:32,858
but rather an obligation.
304
00:31:36,069 --> 00:31:38,364
An obligation to be true to the subject.
305
00:31:41,366 --> 00:31:42,576
To Polly.
306
00:31:45,954 --> 00:31:47,664
I don't understand.
307
00:31:47,748 --> 00:31:49,249
Well, I don't want to give it away.
308
00:31:50,083 --> 00:31:51,627
But, Mr. Waxcap, I--
309
00:31:52,169 --> 00:31:54,214
[LAUGHS] I'll never read it.
310
00:31:55,005 --> 00:31:57,007
-[BRIEFCASE LOCK CLICKS]
-I'd hate to keep you.
311
00:32:11,522 --> 00:32:14,858
[SIGHS]
312
00:32:19,239 --> 00:32:22,367
[LILY] The house was built in 1812
313
00:32:22,449 --> 00:32:27,371
by the two bare hands of a local man,
as a gift to his new bride.
314
00:32:28,997 --> 00:32:32,502
The couple was last seen
taking their marriage vows
315
00:32:32,585 --> 00:32:34,211
in the center of town.
316
00:32:35,672 --> 00:32:39,091
And the very next day, they were gone...
317
00:32:40,260 --> 00:32:44,137
disappearing before placing
a single piece of furniture.
318
00:32:45,931 --> 00:32:50,811
The townspeople shook their heads
and clucked their tongues.
319
00:32:52,437 --> 00:32:57,276
"Some people," they'd say,
"just get spooked."
320
00:32:58,278 --> 00:32:59,320
[SIGHS]
321
00:32:59,403 --> 00:33:00,237
Well, well.
322
00:33:01,488 --> 00:33:03,282
You're not so big and tough.
323
00:33:04,324 --> 00:33:07,703
["YOU KEEP COMING BACK
LIKE A SONG" PLAYING]
324
00:33:10,373 --> 00:33:14,294
♪ Keeps coming back ♪
325
00:33:15,252 --> 00:33:20,466
♪ Like an old melody ♪
326
00:33:23,344 --> 00:33:26,013
♪ The perfume ♪
327
00:33:26,096 --> 00:33:31,935
♪ Of roses in May... ♪
328
00:33:32,019 --> 00:33:33,603
[EXHALES]
329
00:33:37,983 --> 00:33:40,653
♪ Returns... ♪
330
00:33:44,031 --> 00:33:46,908
[POLLY] The pretty thing
you are looking at now is me.
331
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,120
My name is Polly Parsons
332
00:33:50,203 --> 00:33:52,998
and I came into the world
just as I left it.
333
00:33:57,794 --> 00:33:59,921
I'm not more than a few minutes old
334
00:34:00,005 --> 00:34:02,174
and my mother is already dead,
335
00:34:02,257 --> 00:34:04,552
her forehead slick with sweat,
336
00:34:04,802 --> 00:34:07,304
and cool with the pallor of icebox butter.
337
00:34:10,558 --> 00:34:13,852
I am tied to my mother's body
by a terrible rope
338
00:34:13,935 --> 00:34:17,398
that is a shiny, twisted
midnight blue-black.
339
00:34:19,359 --> 00:34:21,860
The doctor is holding me up to the light.
340
00:34:25,906 --> 00:34:27,408
But now I am dead.
341
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:33,955
And yes, I left the world
just as I came into it.
342
00:34:36,124 --> 00:34:38,378
I am wearing nothing but blood.
343
00:34:44,132 --> 00:34:46,343
["YOU KEEP COMING BACK
LIKE A SONG" PLAYING]
344
00:34:46,427 --> 00:34:47,387
[GASPS]
345
00:35:02,984 --> 00:35:07,865
♪ You keep coming back ♪
346
00:35:09,867 --> 00:35:12,703
♪ Like a song ♪
347
00:35:40,648 --> 00:35:44,067
Oh, no. [GASPS]
348
00:35:46,153 --> 00:35:47,572
Oh...
349
00:35:47,654 --> 00:35:49,072
[SIGHS]
350
00:35:50,783 --> 00:35:51,950
Nuts.
351
00:35:53,326 --> 00:35:57,289
[THUNDER CRACKLING]
352
00:36:10,636 --> 00:36:15,516
[PANTS]
353
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:35,869
[GASPS]
354
00:36:38,539 --> 00:36:39,540
[IRIS] Polly!
355
00:36:53,470 --> 00:36:57,474
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
356
00:37:03,606 --> 00:37:07,359
[LILY] I am as white as a sail.
357
00:37:12,573 --> 00:37:14,742
I tell this often to myself.
358
00:37:18,245 --> 00:37:21,498
I tell myself that nothing gets on me.
359
00:37:26,378 --> 00:37:28,673
But it does me little good.
360
00:37:31,759 --> 00:37:34,344
The words pour right through.
361
00:37:37,138 --> 00:37:40,433
I am too full of holes.
362
00:37:46,481 --> 00:37:48,191
[RAINDROPS PATTERING]
363
00:37:55,575 --> 00:37:58,285
Grow up, you dumb old scaredy-cat.
364
00:38:00,495 --> 00:38:04,584
It's just a bunch of silly old
make-believe typed words on paper.
365
00:38:25,478 --> 00:38:28,398
[TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICKING]
366
00:38:28,982 --> 00:38:30,483
[LILY, READING] "Dear Reader,
367
00:38:32,485 --> 00:38:36,406
You should know that the true account
that follows in this book
368
00:38:36,489 --> 00:38:39,744
was told to me directly by Polly Parsons,
369
00:38:42,830 --> 00:38:47,960
the young woman who lived it
but, alas, did not survive it.
370
00:38:51,379 --> 00:38:55,175
True to our heroine, my heroine,
371
00:38:55,258 --> 00:38:58,804
I have written down
all that she cared to reveal.
372
00:38:59,722 --> 00:39:01,766
All but the very ending,
373
00:39:01,849 --> 00:39:06,394
which she was either unable
or unwilling to tell me herself.
374
00:39:14,611 --> 00:39:17,489
Or maybe
she just couldn't see it anymore."
375
00:39:20,826 --> 00:39:22,410
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
376
00:39:22,494 --> 00:39:23,663
[CHUCKLES]
377
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,606
"And even if I was fiendishly tempted,
378
00:39:51,691 --> 00:39:55,568
I have refrained
from pressing the subject with her.
379
00:39:55,652 --> 00:39:59,447
Though it seems safe to assume
that, as endings go,
380
00:39:59,531 --> 00:40:03,994
Polly's was not an especially pretty one.
381
00:40:13,378 --> 00:40:16,297
But Polly wouldn't tell me herself,
382
00:40:16,381 --> 00:40:19,384
and I couldn't have gone
and simply made something up.
383
00:40:20,510 --> 00:40:22,888
So I have left it off altogether.
384
00:40:23,806 --> 00:40:26,349
Out of respect for the dead,
you understand.
385
00:40:32,772 --> 00:40:34,983
Because yes, dear reader,
386
00:40:35,901 --> 00:40:41,073
Polly Parsons, the subject of this book,
is quite dead indeed.
387
00:40:49,372 --> 00:40:53,919
Quite dead but not quite buried.
388
00:40:56,797 --> 00:40:59,175
Carelessly concealed in a grave
389
00:40:59,257 --> 00:41:03,012
too shallow to be rightly called
a grave at all.
390
00:41:07,808 --> 00:41:11,854
Better to call it a... hiding place.
391
00:41:22,864 --> 00:41:24,783
But I've said too much already,
392
00:41:25,283 --> 00:41:27,952
and now will leave the rest
to Polly herself,
393
00:41:28,037 --> 00:41:30,455
as was my intention in the first place.
394
00:41:37,337 --> 00:41:42,383
Iris Blum,
Braintree, Massachusetts, 1960."
395
00:41:48,056 --> 00:41:50,725
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
396
00:41:50,810 --> 00:41:52,519
Oh, you silly Billy.
397
00:41:54,939 --> 00:41:57,524
Oh, you silly Billy.
398
00:41:57,607 --> 00:41:59,860
[PANTS]
399
00:42:05,657 --> 00:42:08,451
[FAINT THUMPING]
400
00:42:21,172 --> 00:42:24,175
-[THUNDER RUMBLING]
-[RAINDROPS PATTERING]
401
00:42:25,552 --> 00:42:26,887
[METAL CLINKING]
402
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,662
[LILY] The walls and windows
are as thin as bones.
403
00:42:54,539 --> 00:42:57,001
A person could walk right through them.
404
00:42:59,044 --> 00:43:01,588
Just up and leave this old house.
405
00:43:16,353 --> 00:43:18,521
[THUNDERCLAP RUMBLES]
406
00:43:46,507 --> 00:43:49,260
[LILY] No whammies, no whammies,
no whammies. Stop.
407
00:43:51,304 --> 00:43:52,263
[SIGHS]
408
00:43:53,222 --> 00:43:55,224
No whammies, no whammies,
no whammies. Stop.
409
00:43:57,977 --> 00:43:59,187
[SIGHS]
410
00:43:59,270 --> 00:44:00,271
[SIGHS]
411
00:44:01,105 --> 00:44:03,524
No whammies, no whammies,
no whammies. Stop.
412
00:44:07,237 --> 00:44:08,655
[WOMAN ON TV SCREAMING]
413
00:44:08,738 --> 00:44:11,282
[LILY] No whammies, no whammies,
no whammies. Stop.
414
00:44:47,944 --> 00:44:49,989
[POLLY] This is how you rot.
415
00:44:56,869 --> 00:45:00,665
["YOU KEEP COMING BACK
LIKE A SONG" PLAYING]
416
00:45:04,711 --> 00:45:10,883
♪ You keep coming back ♪
417
00:45:11,926 --> 00:45:13,095
♪ Like a song-- ♪
418
00:45:13,177 --> 00:45:14,429
-[PLAYER CLICKS]
-[MUSIC STOPS]
419
00:45:29,153 --> 00:45:31,321
[WIND WHISTLING]
420
00:47:04,330 --> 00:47:06,958
[WALL THUMPING]
421
00:47:12,256 --> 00:47:14,258
[RAINDROPS PATTERING]
422
00:47:16,801 --> 00:47:18,136
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
423
00:47:41,117 --> 00:47:42,869
[LILY] It's safe, though?
424
00:47:42,952 --> 00:47:45,830
I mean, nothing is gonna fall down?
425
00:47:51,961 --> 00:47:55,047
Uh, and when do you think
you can come to do that?
426
00:47:55,131 --> 00:47:56,132
To open it up? To...
427
00:47:57,384 --> 00:47:59,219
open up the wall, I mean.
428
00:48:01,513 --> 00:48:05,642
Yeah, Monday is okay.
Any day is okay. I'm not going anywhere.
429
00:48:07,269 --> 00:48:09,188
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
430
00:48:11,022 --> 00:48:14,483
Oh, I haven't really looked. I...
431
00:48:16,861 --> 00:48:18,529
I kind of hate the sight of it.
432
00:48:19,489 --> 00:48:21,325
But okay. [CHUCKLES]
433
00:48:22,409 --> 00:48:24,203
I can. [LAUGHS]
434
00:48:26,455 --> 00:48:27,456
I will.
435
00:48:31,834 --> 00:48:34,879
Okay. Thanks.
436
00:49:06,411 --> 00:49:09,121
[SIGHS]
437
00:49:31,143 --> 00:49:33,480
[RAINDROPS PATTERING]
438
00:49:41,321 --> 00:49:43,407
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
439
00:51:38,855 --> 00:51:40,898
[SCISSORS CLINKING]
440
00:52:09,678 --> 00:52:11,638
[GASPS]
441
00:53:39,391 --> 00:53:42,311
[LILY, READING]
"I now believe Polly entirely
442
00:53:42,394 --> 00:53:44,522
when she insists
that she does not remember
443
00:53:44,605 --> 00:53:46,440
what happened to her in the end.
444
00:53:47,066 --> 00:53:50,319
I can sometimes see her struggle
with the shape of it,
445
00:53:51,904 --> 00:53:55,324
more as if trying to remember
a song she once heard,
446
00:53:55,908 --> 00:53:58,410
and not as she might remember an event.
447
00:54:01,413 --> 00:54:05,292
How does one forget
something as essential as that?
448
00:54:12,466 --> 00:54:14,718
How does one forget a death?
449
00:54:30,109 --> 00:54:33,153
Maybe it is the body that remembers.
450
00:54:35,072 --> 00:54:39,076
And without the body,
there is nothing to hold to."
451
00:54:43,330 --> 00:54:44,331
[SIGHS]
452
00:54:44,415 --> 00:54:49,378
"We make our own ghosts by looking,
453
00:54:49,461 --> 00:54:51,673
but pretending not to see...
454
00:55:07,938 --> 00:55:11,066
and then forgetting ourselves altogether.
455
00:55:15,362 --> 00:55:18,324
It is a terrible thing to look at oneself
456
00:55:18,991 --> 00:55:21,744
and to all the while see nothing.
457
00:55:27,541 --> 00:55:30,712
Surely this is how we make our own ghosts.
458
00:55:32,881 --> 00:55:35,634
We make them out of ourselves."
459
00:55:42,181 --> 00:55:43,557
-[HAMMER CLANGS]
-[POLLY SCREAMS]
460
00:55:44,016 --> 00:55:46,602
[THUMPING]
461
00:55:47,603 --> 00:55:50,105
[THUMPING]
462
00:55:51,523 --> 00:55:53,901
[THUMPING]
463
00:56:07,456 --> 00:56:09,041
-[METAL CLINKS]
-[LILY GASPS]
464
00:56:10,043 --> 00:56:12,211
[RAIN PATTERING]
465
00:56:47,579 --> 00:56:49,581
[RAIN PATTERING]
466
00:56:55,796 --> 00:56:58,590
[LILY] I took one of your books
off the shelf in your study.
467
00:57:02,178 --> 00:57:03,679
I hope that's all right.
468
00:57:10,811 --> 00:57:12,187
The Lady in the Walls.
469
00:57:14,815 --> 00:57:16,567
Had to put it down, though.
470
00:57:16,650 --> 00:57:17,985
[LAUGHS]
471
00:57:19,570 --> 00:57:21,030
[WHISPERS] Too scary for me.
472
00:57:31,415 --> 00:57:34,460
You know that one, don't you?
473
00:57:36,170 --> 00:57:38,422
[IRIS] Where did you go, Polly?
474
00:57:41,383 --> 00:57:43,427
[LILY] I didn't go anywhere, Ms. Blum.
475
00:57:45,512 --> 00:57:49,516
I'm here with you,
same as I have always been.
476
00:57:50,642 --> 00:57:55,982
The same Lily Saylor
of 43 Hoover Road, Altoona...
477
00:58:03,405 --> 00:58:04,866
[SIGHS]
478
00:58:04,949 --> 00:58:06,325
Pennsylvania.
479
00:58:09,536 --> 00:58:10,830
At your service.
480
00:58:27,554 --> 00:58:31,642
[IRIS] You had so much to say
in those first years.
481
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:38,900
When you lived here with me.
482
00:58:45,572 --> 00:58:47,909
Enough to fill a book.
483
00:58:57,417 --> 00:58:58,585
And then...
484
00:59:02,298 --> 00:59:03,799
nothing.
485
00:59:10,056 --> 00:59:11,933
You turned your back.
486
00:59:16,019 --> 00:59:19,606
You turned your back,
487
00:59:20,691 --> 00:59:23,402
and you turned your back
488
00:59:23,902 --> 00:59:25,904
so many times...
489
00:59:27,197 --> 00:59:28,240
[SIGHS]
490
00:59:29,533 --> 00:59:34,454
that soon your feet
were facing the wrong way altogether.
491
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,626
[SIGHS]
492
00:59:39,710 --> 00:59:44,173
And I had to watch you come into a room...
493
00:59:46,383 --> 00:59:47,384
back to front.
494
00:59:53,557 --> 00:59:57,061
I did nothing but sit and listen.
495
00:59:58,562 --> 01:00:00,647
I made no noises.
496
01:00:01,857 --> 01:00:04,110
I welcomed no visitors.
497
01:00:06,653 --> 01:00:10,073
And here, now, you've come back.
498
01:00:11,533 --> 01:00:15,662
But only to hurt me,
only to show yourself,
499
01:00:15,746 --> 01:00:17,414
-but not to let me see.
-No.
500
01:00:20,792 --> 01:00:23,670
You hardly resemble yourself.
501
01:00:23,754 --> 01:00:26,924
Ms. Blum... please.
502
01:00:30,010 --> 01:00:33,513
You poor, pretty things
503
01:00:34,223 --> 01:00:39,020
whose prettiness holds only one guarantee.
504
01:00:42,564 --> 01:00:48,070
Learn to see yourself as the rest
of the world does, and you'll keep.
505
01:00:53,450 --> 01:00:54,993
But left alone,
506
01:00:58,413 --> 01:01:01,583
with only your own eyes
looking back at you,
507
01:01:04,337 --> 01:01:07,298
and even the prettiest things rot.
508
01:01:16,432 --> 01:01:19,185
You fall apart like flowers.
509
01:01:31,364 --> 01:01:34,409
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
510
01:01:53,969 --> 01:01:55,512
-[GUNFIRE WHISTLES]
-[HORSE NEIGHING]
511
01:03:04,623 --> 01:03:07,543
[POLLY WHISPERS]
512
01:03:16,135 --> 01:03:17,719
[STATIC BUZZING]
513
01:03:53,046 --> 01:03:58,511
[LILY] The pretty thing
you are looking at is me.
514
01:04:01,930 --> 01:04:07,186
But it is me that still cannot see
any of what is coming.
515
01:04:10,397 --> 01:04:14,276
Me that doesn't even know where to look.
516
01:04:15,819 --> 01:04:17,654
[FAINT DRIPPING]
517
01:04:17,737 --> 01:04:18,864
[LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS]
518
01:04:18,947 --> 01:04:23,618
Me that can see only the drawer that opens
519
01:04:24,786 --> 01:04:27,372
and the claw that closes.
520
01:04:29,124 --> 01:04:31,459
The bell that rings
521
01:04:32,253 --> 01:04:34,297
and the spots that spread.
522
01:04:36,673 --> 01:04:38,758
The holes that pour through
523
01:04:40,302 --> 01:04:42,387
and the cord that stretches.
524
01:04:43,638 --> 01:04:45,974
The hammer and the pliers.
525
01:04:46,057 --> 01:04:48,310
And the terrible book.
526
01:04:49,644 --> 01:04:54,274
And the face of the woman
who wrote it all down.
527
01:04:55,525 --> 01:04:59,988
The me that can see only the name.
528
01:05:00,071 --> 01:05:01,865
Only her name.
529
01:05:04,117 --> 01:05:07,580
But the rest of what is coming
cannot be seen
530
01:05:10,416 --> 01:05:12,959
even as I look right at it.
531
01:05:20,175 --> 01:05:23,970
It is a terrible thing to look at oneself
532
01:05:24,971 --> 01:05:29,851
and all the while see nothing.
533
01:05:35,982 --> 01:05:39,570
["YOU KEEP COMING BACK
LIKE A SONG" PLAYING]
534
01:05:42,323 --> 01:05:46,244
♪ Returns to my room... ♪
535
01:05:46,327 --> 01:05:48,078
[FAINT CREAKING]
536
01:05:48,161 --> 01:05:53,792
♪ In December ♪
537
01:05:58,004 --> 01:06:01,841
♪ From out of the past ♪
538
01:06:02,926 --> 01:06:08,974
♪ Where forgotten things belong ♪
539
01:06:11,310 --> 01:06:17,483
♪ You keep coming back ♪
540
01:06:18,566 --> 01:06:24,114
♪ Like a song ♪
541
01:06:24,197 --> 01:06:27,200
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
542
01:06:40,422 --> 01:06:41,756
-[CLICKS]
-[MUSIC STOPS]
543
01:06:45,093 --> 01:06:46,304
[FAINT CLATTERING]
544
01:06:51,099 --> 01:06:52,559
[FAINT THUMPING]
545
01:07:08,908 --> 01:07:10,952
[THUMPING GROWS LOUDER]
546
01:07:16,624 --> 01:07:19,419
[THUMPING CONTINUES]
547
01:07:28,303 --> 01:07:29,304
[LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS]
548
01:07:32,932 --> 01:07:34,476
Hello?
549
01:08:29,114 --> 01:08:30,198
[LILY GASPS]
550
01:08:50,135 --> 01:08:51,762
-[METAL CLINKING]
-[GASPS]
551
01:09:03,356 --> 01:09:06,444
[FAINT TICKING]
552
01:10:35,198 --> 01:10:37,200
[TICKING CONTINUES]
553
01:10:44,750 --> 01:10:48,546
[GASPS, SCREAMS]
554
01:11:35,926 --> 01:11:38,428
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
555
01:11:42,098 --> 01:11:46,436
[LILY] I had arrived
in the first few days of August,
556
01:11:46,604 --> 01:11:48,897
hired to care for Ms. Blum.
557
01:11:51,441 --> 01:11:56,696
The winter of that year
proved to be unseasonably warm,
558
01:11:59,657 --> 01:12:02,994
and by February,
all that was left of the snow
559
01:12:03,078 --> 01:12:08,541
on the sides of the highways
had turned mostly black.
560
01:12:09,459 --> 01:12:11,837
[RAINDROPS PATTERING]
561
01:12:11,919 --> 01:12:14,839
It rained too much in the spring,
562
01:12:15,256 --> 01:12:17,967
and the fruit in the trees hung heavy
563
01:12:18,551 --> 01:12:20,928
at the ends of bent branches.
564
01:12:23,389 --> 01:12:28,353
The sun in the summer months
was unreasonably hot
565
01:12:29,897 --> 01:12:33,524
and stung my bare shoulders
whenever I let it.
566
01:12:38,780 --> 01:12:40,698
I remember thinking
567
01:12:40,949 --> 01:12:45,746
that it felt like fall would never come.
568
01:12:48,666 --> 01:12:52,418
And then it never did.
569
01:12:59,842 --> 01:13:02,595
[FLIES BUZZING]
570
01:13:14,942 --> 01:13:16,526
[KNOCKING]
571
01:13:57,066 --> 01:13:58,234
[KNOCKING]
572
01:14:03,448 --> 01:14:04,699
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
573
01:14:06,868 --> 01:14:08,077
[WORKMAN] Hello?
574
01:14:20,381 --> 01:14:22,467
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
575
01:14:38,942 --> 01:14:40,152
[BUZZING STOPS]
576
01:15:09,472 --> 01:15:14,060
[VAN ENGINE STARTS]
577
01:15:43,714 --> 01:15:45,508
[IRIS] Polly!
578
01:16:04,443 --> 01:16:06,612
[FLIES BUZZING]
579
01:16:16,539 --> 01:16:19,877
[FLIES BUZZING]
580
01:16:28,718 --> 01:16:31,138
[FLIES BUZZING]
581
01:16:33,639 --> 01:16:35,976
[TYPEWRITER CLICKING]
582
01:17:46,004 --> 01:17:47,172
Polly?
583
01:18:37,972 --> 01:18:40,017
[CAR APPROACHING]
584
01:18:57,283 --> 01:19:01,037
-[FRONT DOOR LOCK CLICKS]
-[DOOR CREAKS OPEN]
585
01:19:10,129 --> 01:19:13,090
[RADIO DISPATCHER TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
586
01:19:40,118 --> 01:19:42,120
[FRONT DOOR CREAKS SHUT]
587
01:20:13,193 --> 01:20:15,778
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
588
01:20:28,416 --> 01:20:31,001
[LILY] I have heard myself say
589
01:20:32,212 --> 01:20:34,922
that a house with a death in it
590
01:20:35,005 --> 01:20:39,302
can never again be bought
or sold by the living.
591
01:20:43,431 --> 01:20:47,893
It can only be borrowed from its ghosts.
592
01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:05,495
And so it is.
593
01:21:18,716 --> 01:21:22,304
The house that stands
at the end of Teacup Road
594
01:21:22,387 --> 01:21:25,848
near the town of Braintree, Massachusetts.
595
01:21:29,477 --> 01:21:31,937
You may borrow it from me.
596
01:21:36,859 --> 01:21:39,153
[WATER DRIPPING]
597
01:21:53,167 --> 01:21:55,878
[WATER SPLASHING]
598
01:21:58,172 --> 01:21:59,381
[GULPS, SIGHS]
599
01:22:01,759 --> 01:22:07,432
Because the memory of a death
is a thing that stays,
600
01:22:07,515 --> 01:22:11,436
pressed deeply in place
like type on paper.
601
01:22:14,939 --> 01:22:19,151
Even after it has been covered up
with nothing left to see.
602
01:22:23,615 --> 01:22:27,535
And still I think I'll stay
603
01:22:27,619 --> 01:22:29,954
for one more look at her.
604
01:22:43,968 --> 01:22:48,973
This is how I let myself rot.
605
01:22:59,858 --> 01:23:03,946
The pretty thing you are looking at...
606
01:23:06,741 --> 01:23:08,158
is me.